[
US
/ˈhɝd/
]
[ UK /hˈɜːd/ ]
[ UK /hˈɜːd/ ]
NOUN
- a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans
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a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things
his brilliance raised him above the ruck
the children resembled a fairy herd - a group of wild mammals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra
VERB
- move together, like a herd
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keep, move, or drive animals
Who will be herding the cattle when the cowboy dies? -
cause to herd, drive, or crowd together
We herded the children into a spare classroom
How To Use herd In A Sentence
- Deefer took others off to see if there might not be a few plump wherries in the hills; they would make a nice change from the tough herdbeast meat, the supply of which was now virtually ex - hausted. Nerilka's Story
- Asia and South America, attacking various members of the Bovidae, horses, camels, donkeys, etc. as well as the big game, antelopes, deer, etc. sometimes wiping out great herds. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1907 - Presentation Speech
- The requests were the old ones: portraits of pretty mistresses done up as Arcadian shepherdesses, Virgins with downcast eyes and brilliant blue cloaks, sentimentalised pictures of the Infant Christ.
- The church was dedicated to St Anthony of Egypt, patron saint of swineherds and of charcoal burners, a trade carried out on the fell for many years in the past.
- The herds and bands of elephants, horses, dancing girls and musicians, and scenes from the Ramayana come alive on the outer walls of the temple.
- The field is still popularly associated more with tents than texts: stones, bones, and potsherds.
- What makes all these people come to the club? In my view it's the herd instinct.
- They drifted into the control room and floated above the sensor-generated hologram of the “herd. †The “herd†consisted of approximately 3,000 mountain-sized blocks of ice that once were comet 2P/Encke. 365 tomorrows » 2006 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
- Bull calves from dairy herds are usually castrated, becoming steers, and sent to feedlots, where they are fattened for slaughter, usually before the age of 2.
- This pattern of stimulus and response is parallel to the way that a shepherd might train his sheepdog.
